Bring dramatic, painterly life to flat coastal RAW files. Designed to solve the lifeless grey conditions typical of Pacific Northwest shorelines, Steve's Coastal Vibrance converts pale, overcast exposures into striking, luminous fine-art landscapes.

The Aesthetic:

• Luminous Sky Transformation: Strips away flat overcast greys, infusing cloud cover with vibrant sweeps of warm amber, rose-gold, and electric sunset hues.

• Cool Coastal Contrast: Cools down wet sand, tide pools, and foam into rich steel-blues and teals, creating a high-impact complementary color balance against the warm sky.

• Defined Foreground Anchoring: Deepens muted treelines, sea stacks, and shorelines into crisp, ink-black silhouettes that add immediate visual depth.

What’s Included:

• 1 Desktop Preset (.xmp)

• 1 Mobile Preset (.dng)

• Step-by-step Installation Guide

Note: Because this preset applies heavy color calibration shifts and tone curve manipulation to revive flat light, it is best applied to landscape images shot during twilight, golden hour, or under broken cloud cover. You may need to fine-tune your Exposure and Temperature/Tint sliders to match your specific camera sensor's starting point.

Enter the Upside Down. A love letter to the golden era of 1980s sci-fi and the eerie, atmospheric color grading of Stranger Things, this signature preset instantly pulls your scene into another dimension. Designed to completely overhaul your skies, it replaces natural light with a brooding, supernatural atmosphere that feels simultaneously nostalgic and ominous.

This is an aggressive, highly stylized cinematic tool. It is built to shift flat, uninteresting skies into a toxic palette of bruised pinks, deep purples, and unnatural teals, while intentionally crushing the foreground to create stark, dramatic silhouettes.

The Aesthetic:

• The Upside Down Palette: Injects a distinct sci-fi thriller color grade directly into your highlights and midtones, creating an immediate sense of cinematic tension.

• Dramatic Silhouettes: Aggressively deepens the shadows in foreground elements—like winter trees or urban architecture—to push the viewer's eye straight into the otherworldly sky.

• Analog Nostalgia: Mimics the heavy, atmospheric density of vintage 1982 cinema, giving modern digital files a gripping, narrative weight.

What’s Included:

• 1 Desktop Preset (.xmp)

• 1 Mobile Preset (.dng)

• Step-by-step Installation Guide

Note: This is an extreme color-shift preset that performs best on images with distinct silhouettes and open, expansive skies. Because it heavily manipulates camera calibration and tone curves, you may need to adjust your White Balance (Temp/Tint) sliders to perfectly align the purple and pink hues with your original exposure.

Find the brilliance in the gloom. Designed specifically for the heavy, diffused light of an overcast or rainy day, this signature preset turns a flat grey sky from a disadvantage into a massive, natural softbox. It is built to isolate single subjects—particularly vibrant florals—and elevate the delicate micro-textures that are often lost in harsh sunlight.

This preset is highly specialized for close-up and macro photography. By deepening the shadows of the surrounding wet soil and foliage, it creates a rich, high-contrast backdrop that allows the vivid reds, oranges, and yellows of the flower to completely command the viewer's attention.

The Aesthetic:

• Micro-Contrast Enhancement: Specially tuned to bring out the razor-sharp clarity and reflections inside tiny water droplets and the velvety texture of petals.

• Saturated Isolation: Supercharges the natural color saturation of the primary subject while suppressing distracting background elements, mimicking the look of fast, high-end telephoto glass.

• The Overcast Advantage: Neutralizes the dull, flat greys of a rainy day, turning them into deep, moody shadows that push your subject forward in the frame.

What’s Included:

• 1 Desktop Preset (.xmp)

• 1 Mobile Preset (.dng)

• Step-by-step Installation Guide

Note: This preset is optimized for images shot in soft, diffused, or rainy lighting conditions. If applied to a photo taken in direct, harsh sunlight, the colors may appear overly saturated and the shadows too intense. You may need to adjust your Shadows and Vibrance sliders depending on how close you are to your subject.

Step into the silver screen. Designed to evoke the timeless, high-contrast atmosphere of classic 1920s cinema and the gritty elegance of vintage gangster films, this signature black-and-white preset strips away digital distractions to reveal the raw, dramatic emotion of your scene.

This preset is an absolute problem-solver for difficult, mixed lighting. Built specifically to handle chaotic color casts—like the unpredictable wash of LED theater spotlights or harsh indoor venue lighting—it translates those frustrating color temperatures into a rich, cohesive monochromatic study. It excels in bringing out the intricate textures of urban architecture, the dramatic chiaroscuro of stage performances, and the commanding presence of a portrait.

The Aesthetic:

• Cinematic Monochrome: Delivers deep, inky blacks and crisp, silvery highlights without muddying the mid-tones.

• The Rescue Edit: Instantly neutralizes unfixable color casts, turning a technically flawed, mixed-light photo into a deliberate, fine-art black and white image.

• Timeless Texture: Enhances the micro-contrast in architectural details, stage costumes, and dramatic facial lighting to give modern digital files an authentic, analog weight.

What’s Included:

• 1 Desktop Preset (.xmp)

• 1 Mobile Preset (.dng)

• Step-by-step Installation Guide

Note: While incredibly versatile for rescuing indoor and theatrical lighting, this preset heavily manipulates global contrast. You may need to slightly adjust your Exposure and Shadows sliders to protect the details in your subject's face, depending on how dark your original exposure was in camera.

Transform your skies into a canvas. Inspired by the impressionistic color palettes of Claude Monet and the surreal, lucid-dream atmosphere of the film Vanilla Sky, this signature preset is designed to make your images feel vividly alive.

This is not a subtle, everyday filter. It is a heavy, highly stylized edit that acts as a deliberate artistic tool. Built to elevate dramatic sunsets, deepen foreground silhouettes, and infuse your skies with rich, cinematic color harmony, it turns a fleeting moment into a gallery-ready study.

The Aesthetic:

• Lucid & Surreal: Pulls intense, dreamlike pinks, purples, and teals out of the clouds to create immediate visual impact.

• Painterly Atmosphere: Gives modern digital files the emotional weight and smooth color transitions of a fine-art painting.

• High-Impact Contrast: Perfectly balances bright, explosive skies with deep, clean silhouettes (ideal for stadium architecture, treelines, or urban skylines).

What’s Included:

• 1 Desktop Preset (.xmp)

• 1 Mobile Preset (.dng)

• Step-by-step Installation Guide

Note: Because this is a heavily stylized preset, it will not work perfectly on every single photo with one click. It is best applied to images with existing sunset or sunrise light. You may need to slightly adjust your Exposure and Temperature sliders to match your specific camera's starting point.